Ten Years

Famous quotes containing the words ten and/or years:

    “You may persevere in obscurity for ten years in your study, but the day you make a name for yourself, the whole world will acclaim you.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn’t order any credit cards! We don’t spend what we don’t have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?”
    —Sarah Louise Delany (b. 1889)